物

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物 U+7269, 物
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7269
← 牨
[U+7268] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 牪 →
[U+726A]

Translingual[edit]

Stroke order
8 strokes
Stroke order
物-order.gif

Han character[edit]

物 (Kangxi radical 93, 牛+4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 竹手心竹竹 (HQPHH), four-corner 27520, composition ⿰牜勿)

Derived characters[edit]

References[edit]

  • KangXi: page 699, character 9
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19959
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1111, character 9
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1805, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+7269

Chinese[edit]

simp. and trad.
 物

Glyph origin[edit]

Historical forms of the character 物
Shang Warring States Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script Chu slip and silk script Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
物-oracle.svg 物-silk.svg 物-seal.svg 物-bigseal.svg
Characters in the same phonetic series (勿) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
脗 *minʔ
吻 *mɯnʔ
刎 *mɯnʔ
伆 *mɯnʔ, *mɯd
勽 *buːs, *mɯnʔ
沕 *mrɯd, *mɯd
忽 *hmɯːd
昒 *hmɯːd, *mɯd
惚 *hmɯːd
匫 *hmɯːd
笏 *hmɯːd
曶 *hmɯːd
淴 *ʔmɯːd
物 *mɯd
勿 *mɯd
芴 *mɯd
岉 *mɯd

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *mɯd): semantic 牛 + phonetic 勿 (OC *mɯd).

Etymology[edit]

Compare Proto-Sino-Tibetan *(m/b)rəw (“grain; seed; lineage”) (STEDT), whence Tibetan འབྲུ ('bru, “seed; grain”), Jingpho amyu (ə myú, “kind; sort”), Burmese မျိုး (myui:, “seed”).

Pronunciation[edit]

Note:
  • mi̍h/mn̍gh - vernacular (“thing”);
  • mih - vernacular (limited, used in 物仔, 物代, 啥物, etc.);
  • bu̍t - literary.
  • Wu
    • Note:
    • 5veq - literary;
    • 5meq - vernacular, used in 物事.
  • Xiang
    • Dialectal data
    Variety Location 物
    Mandarin Beijing /u⁵¹/
    Harbin /u⁵³/
    Tianjin /u⁵³/
    Jinan /u²¹/
    Qingdao /vu⁴²/
    Zhengzhou /u²⁴/
    Xi'an /vo²¹/
    Xining /v̩⁴⁴/
    Yinchuan /vu¹³/
    Lanzhou /və¹³/
    Ürümqi /vu²¹³/
    Wuhan /u²¹³/
    Chengdu /u³¹/
    Guiyang /u²¹/
    Kunming /u³¹/
    Nanjing /uʔ⁵/
    Hefei /uəʔ⁵/
    Jin Taiyuan /vəʔ²/
    Pingyao /uʌʔ⁵³/
    Hohhot /vəʔ⁴³/
    Wu Shanghai /vəʔ¹/
    Suzhou /vəʔ³/
    /məʔ³/
    Hangzhou /vəʔ²/
    Wenzhou /vai²¹³/
    Hui Shexian /me²²/
    Tunxi /mə¹¹/
    /uə¹¹/
    Xiang Changsha /u²⁴/
    Xiangtan /u²⁴/
    Gan Nanchang /uɨʔ⁵/
    Hakka Meixian /vut̚⁵/
    Taoyuan /vut̚⁵⁵/
    Cantonese Guangzhou /mɐt̚²/
    Nanning /mɐt̚²²/
    Hong Kong /mɐt̚²/
    Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /but̚⁵/
    /miʔ⁵/
    Fuzhou (Min Dong) /uʔ⁵/
    Jian'ou (Min Bei) /u²⁴/
    /o²⁴/ 新
    Shantou (Min Nan) /mueʔ⁵/
    Haikou (Min Nan) /vut̚³/
    /mi³³/
    Rime
    Character 物
    Reading # 1/1
    Initial (聲) 明 (4)
    Final (韻) 物 (60)
    Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
    Openness (開合) Closed
    Division (等) III
    Fanqie 文弗切
    Reconstructions
    Zhengzhang
    Shangfang         		/mɨut̚/
    Pan
    Wuyun         		/miut̚/
    Shao
    Rongfen         		/miuət̚/
    Edwin
    Pulleyblank         		/mut̚/
    Li
    Rong         		/miuət̚/
    Wang
    Li         		/mĭuət̚/
    Bernard
    Karlgren         		/mi̯uət̚/
    Expected
    Mandarin
    Reflex         		wù
    Expected
    Cantonese
    Reflex         		mat6
    Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
    Character 物
    Reading # 1/1
    Modern
    Beijing
    (Pinyin)         		wù
    Middle
    Chinese         		‹ mjut ›
    Old
    Chinese         		/*C.mut/
    English thing

    Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

    * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
    * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
    * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
    * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

    * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
    Zhengzhang system (2003)
    Character 物
    Reading # 1/1
    No. 13218
    Phonetic
    component         		勿
    Rime
    group         		物
    Rime
    subdivision         		1
    Corresponding
    MC rime         		物
    Old
    Chinese         		/*mɯd/

    Definitions[edit]

    物

    1. thing, matter
      物體 / 物体  ―  wùtǐ  ―  object
      動物 / 动物  ―  dòngwù  ―  animal [lit. moving thing]
    2. all of the outside world, excluding oneself
    3. substance, content
    4. Short for 物理 (wùlǐ, “physics”).
    5. to choose, to select
    6. to seek, to look for
      物色  ―  wùsè  ―  to seek out, to scout out
    7. (Teochew) to do
      家己物 [Teochew]  ―  ga1 gi7 muêh8 [Peng'im]  ―  do it by oneself
    8. † Alternative form of 勿 (wù).
    9. (Min Nan) Alternative form of 乜 (miē, “what”).

    Synonyms[edit]

    • (to do):
    edit

    Compounds[edit]

    Derived terms from 物

    Japanese[edit]

    Kanji[edit]

    物

    (grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

    Readings[edit]

    Compounds[edit]

    Compounds

    Etymology 1[edit]

    Kanji in this term
    物
    もの
    Grade: 3
    kun’yomi

    ⟨mo2no2⟩ → ⟨mono2⟩ → /mono/

    From Old Japanese. Attested in the Kojiki. Ultimately from Proto-Japonic *mənə.

    Alternative forms[edit]

    Pronunciation[edit]

    Noun[edit]

    物(もの) • (mono) 

    1. thing (concrete, tangible)
      Synonym: (slang) 物 (butsu)
      1. (law) a corporeal object
        • Japanese Civil Code, Article 85
          この法(ほう)律(りつ)において「物(もの)」とは、有(ゆう)体(たい)物(ぶつ)をいう。
          Kono hōritsu ni oite “mono” to wa, yūtaibutsu o iu.
          The term "Things" as used in this Code shall mean tangible thing.
    See also[edit]
    • 事 (koto, “thing”, abstract, intangible)

    Suffix[edit]

    物(もの) • (-mono) 

    1. story, genre (type of story)
      密室(みっしつ)モノ
      misshitsu-mono
      locked room story
      探(たん)偵(てい)もののドラマ
      tantei-mono no dorama
      detective drama
      冒(ぼう)険(けん)ものです。
      Bōken-mono desu.
      It is an adventure story.

    Prefix[edit]

    物(もの) • (mono-) 

    1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.
    Derived terms[edit]

    Etymology 2[edit]

    /mono/ → /mon/

    Shift from mono above.

    Pronunciation[edit]

    Noun[edit]

    物(もん) • (mon) 

    1. (informal) Alternative form of 物 (mono, “thing”)

    Etymology 3[edit]

    Kanji in this term
    物
    ぶつ
    Grade: 3
    on’yomi

    From Middle Chinese 物 (MC mɨut̚).

    Pronunciation[edit]

    Noun[edit]

    物(ぶつ) • (butsu) ←ぶつ (butu)?

    1. (slang) thing
      Synonym: 物 (mono)

    Affix[edit]

    物(ぶつ) • (butsu) ←ぶつ (butu)?

    1. thing

    References[edit]

    1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

    Korean[edit]

    Etymology[edit]

    From Middle Chinese 物 (MC mɨut̚).

    Historical Readings
    Dongguk Jeongun Reading
    Dongguk Jeongun, 1448 무ᇙ〮 (Yale: mwúlq)
    Middle Korean
    Text Eumhun
    Gloss (hun) Reading
    Hunmong Jahoe, 1527[1] 갓 (Yale: kàs) 믈〮 (Yale: múl)

    Pronunciation[edit]

    Hanja[edit]

    Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

    Wikisource

    物 (eumhun 물건(物件) 물 (mulgeon mul))

    1. Hanja form? of 물 (“thing; stuff”).

    Compounds[edit]

    Compounds

    References[edit]

    • 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典. [2]

    Kunigami[edit]

    Kanji[edit]

    物

    Pronunciation[edit]

    Noun[edit]

    物 (hiragana むぬー, rōmaji munū)

    1. thing

    Miyako[edit]

    Kanji[edit]

    物

    Pronunciation[edit]

    Noun[edit]

    物 (hiragana むぬ, rōmaji munu)

    1. thing

    Okinawan[edit]

    Kanji[edit]

    物

    (grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

    Readings[edit]

    Compounds[edit]

    Pronunciation[edit]

    Noun[edit]

    物 (hiragana むぬ, rōmaji munu, alternative reading むん, rōmaji mun)

    1. thing

    Vietnamese[edit]

    Han character[edit]

    物: Hán Việt readings: vật
    物: Nôm readings: vật

    1. chữ Hán form of vật (“item; object; thing”).

    Yaeyama[edit]

    Kanji[edit]

    物

    Pronunciation[edit]

    Noun[edit]

    物 (hiragana むぬ, rōmaji munu)

    1. thing

    Yonaguni[edit]

    Kanji[edit]

    物

    Pronunciation[edit]

    Noun[edit]

    物 (hiragana むぬ, rōmaji munu)

    1. thing
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